AHC: Have most countries elect their leaders with a US style electoral college.

Genuine question: when was the last time that the Electoral College was anything other than a rubber stamp for the popular vote in each state anyway?


1876, 1888, 2000, and 2016.

But to be fair, changing to another electoral system (say the French two round voting) would drastically alter how the candidates campaign, how voters in each state vote, etc. So we still don’t know who has the popular vote in such scenarios.
 
Genuine question: when was the last time that the Electoral College was anything other than a rubber stamp for the popular vote in each state anyway?


1876, 1888, 2000, and 2016.

But to be fair, changing to another electoral system (say the French two round voting) would drastically alter how the candidates campaign, how voters in each state vote, etc. So we still don’t know who has the popular vote in such scenarios.
 

2016 electoral college was just a rubber stamp for the popular vote, just like @Stenz said. Mind you: for the popular vote in each state, not for the popular vote in the whole country. Trump lost the popular vote, but he won a majority of voters in the right states to gain a majority of electors in the EC.

The rest was just a formality. Almost no faithful electors, no discussion, no real surprises.
 

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Thanks for the info guys.

My point being that why would countries voluntarily change to the EC system when it doesn’t provide tangible benefits? In an era of universal suffrage it’s not really a benefit to adopt the system.
 

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As I point out there, the real problem with choosing by popular vote was that it would diminish the power of the slave states. Given that practical difficulty, the Electoral College was arguably as close to popular election as was possible at the time.
So the answer to the OP would be "have more countries be federations in which a plurality of member states practice chattel slavery and don't want to be overruled by majority vote".
 
Every Parliamentary Democracy which has a first-past-the-post system instead of proportional representation kinda does already in OTL.
 
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